Singapore Management University School of Law 2020
This book is a collection of essays from scholars at Singapore Management University School of La... more This book is a collection of essays from scholars at Singapore Management University School of Law analysing the challenges and implications of COVID-19 from the perspective of different areas of law, including private law, corporate law, insolvency law, data protection, financial laws, public law, privacy law, commercial law, constitutional law, law and technology, and dispute resolution. It also analyses how the COVID-19 pandemic will affect the judicial system, the study of law, and the future of the legal profession. Beyond considerations of the pandemic’s influence on law and legal service delivery the authors consider how law can help facilitate the orderly transition to a sustainable future – the new normal.
Ius Comparatum - Global Studies in Comparative Law, 2019
This general report seeks to identify and explain the basic approaches to the regulation of data ... more This general report seeks to identify and explain the basic approaches to the regulation of data protection in the Internet that are currently adopted at the national, supranational and international levels.
Letters of the law : race and the fantasy of colorblindness in American law / Sora Y. Han. pages ... more Letters of the law : race and the fantasy of colorblindness in American law / Sora Y. Han. pages cm.-(The cultural lives of law) Includes bibliographical references and index. isbn 978-0-8047-8911-0 (cloth : alk. paper) 1. Race discrimination-Law and legislation-United States. 2. Post-racialism-United States. I. Title. II. Series: Cultural lives of law.
Singapore’s data protection regime is an evolving one. Its Personal Data Protection Act (PDPA), w... more Singapore’s data protection regime is an evolving one. Its Personal Data Protection Act (PDPA), which applies to both electronic and non-electronic data, recognises the need to strike a reasonable balance between the need for organisations to collect, use and disclose personal data, with individuals’ right to protection of their personal data. As such, the data protection authorities are constantly reviewing the PDPA and its impact, with the results seen through new or updated advisory guidelines, and potentially even changes to the PDPA itself. Other laws, such as the Computer Misuse Act and the Criminal Procedure Code, also affect Singapore’s data protection regime in significant ways.
Singapore has recently amended its Consumer Protection (Fair Trading) Act in response to calls fo... more Singapore has recently amended its Consumer Protection (Fair Trading) Act in response to calls for tougher action against unscrupulous traders. The revisions were aimed at strengthening the government’s ability to deter and punish errant traders, with a focus on deterrence. To this end, the government introduced new investigatory powers, enhanced court powers and added one substantive consumer remedy. Despite this, the authors argue that Singapore’s consumer protection regime remains inadequate because: unfair practices have yet to attract criminal sanctions; no guidelines were issued to provide transparency and clarity on how the broad investigatory powers and harsher court powers are to be implemented; no measures to encourage reform were introduced; and consumer remedies remain insufficient. In this article, the revisions are discussed with a comparison to the Hong Kong and Australian regimes. Suggestions for further reform are then made for the purpose of achieving a more robust...
Singapore Management University School of Law 2020
This book is a collection of essays from scholars at Singapore Management University School of La... more This book is a collection of essays from scholars at Singapore Management University School of Law analysing the challenges and implications of COVID-19 from the perspective of different areas of law, including private law, corporate law, insolvency law, data protection, financial laws, public law, privacy law, commercial law, constitutional law, law and technology, and dispute resolution. It also analyses how the COVID-19 pandemic will affect the judicial system, the study of law, and the future of the legal profession. Beyond considerations of the pandemic’s influence on law and legal service delivery the authors consider how law can help facilitate the orderly transition to a sustainable future – the new normal.
Ius Comparatum - Global Studies in Comparative Law, 2019
This general report seeks to identify and explain the basic approaches to the regulation of data ... more This general report seeks to identify and explain the basic approaches to the regulation of data protection in the Internet that are currently adopted at the national, supranational and international levels.
Letters of the law : race and the fantasy of colorblindness in American law / Sora Y. Han. pages ... more Letters of the law : race and the fantasy of colorblindness in American law / Sora Y. Han. pages cm.-(The cultural lives of law) Includes bibliographical references and index. isbn 978-0-8047-8911-0 (cloth : alk. paper) 1. Race discrimination-Law and legislation-United States. 2. Post-racialism-United States. I. Title. II. Series: Cultural lives of law.
Singapore’s data protection regime is an evolving one. Its Personal Data Protection Act (PDPA), w... more Singapore’s data protection regime is an evolving one. Its Personal Data Protection Act (PDPA), which applies to both electronic and non-electronic data, recognises the need to strike a reasonable balance between the need for organisations to collect, use and disclose personal data, with individuals’ right to protection of their personal data. As such, the data protection authorities are constantly reviewing the PDPA and its impact, with the results seen through new or updated advisory guidelines, and potentially even changes to the PDPA itself. Other laws, such as the Computer Misuse Act and the Criminal Procedure Code, also affect Singapore’s data protection regime in significant ways.
Singapore has recently amended its Consumer Protection (Fair Trading) Act in response to calls fo... more Singapore has recently amended its Consumer Protection (Fair Trading) Act in response to calls for tougher action against unscrupulous traders. The revisions were aimed at strengthening the government’s ability to deter and punish errant traders, with a focus on deterrence. To this end, the government introduced new investigatory powers, enhanced court powers and added one substantive consumer remedy. Despite this, the authors argue that Singapore’s consumer protection regime remains inadequate because: unfair practices have yet to attract criminal sanctions; no guidelines were issued to provide transparency and clarity on how the broad investigatory powers and harsher court powers are to be implemented; no measures to encourage reform were introduced; and consumer remedies remain insufficient. In this article, the revisions are discussed with a comparison to the Hong Kong and Australian regimes. Suggestions for further reform are then made for the purpose of achieving a more robust...
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